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Imperial Teen - All Over You (Indie Exclusive, Colored Vinyl, Purple)
Just beneath the sleek, confident guitar line that powers "Overdrive, " the lead single of Imperial Teen's seventh studio album All Over You - out October 9, 2026 on the band's longtime home Merge Records - another guitar marks the time more impatiently, as if the groove it's locked into is the timebomb-tightness of a pre-hookup heartbeat. It's energy isn't nervous - after all, it's hard to be nervous with Will Schwartz cooing come-ons like "I just wanna get you in the bed / Light you up like a cigarette" in your ear - but it is urgent. Excited. Titillated.
That's the word that best describes the prospect of a new Imperial Teen record: titillating. They come out at a pace of one every five or six years, each new album acting as, to quote Roddy Bottum, "an episodic piece of where we are now, where the world is now, who we have become, and the geography of our collective consciousness." There is considerable distance between Imperial Teen, it's members - Bottum (guitars, keyboards, vocals), Schwartz (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Jone Stebbins (bass, vocals), and Lynn Truell (drums, vocals) - having made families and lives for themselves in different cities, but the collective consciousness that exists between them makes distance and time seem immaterial to the listener. All Over You is a triumph of maximized moments like that, but Imperial Teen have always shined brightest when they're in the same room, four people bringing the force of their personalities to bear on years of built-up ideas. Title track "All Over You, " initially built over the computer, gained it's charming sneer in the studio, where Stebbins' buoyant, fuzzed out bassline added bounce to the song's punchy, sloganeering lyrics, a perfect set-up for Truell to drive the song home, screaming the last line of the chorus, "We've got nothing to do, " like a rallying cry for a generation that's been given nothing and told to deny themselves everything. "In my head, " Truell says, "I just went back to punk, to that feeling of prowling around looking for anything to do and being so mad about how boring everything is that you just have to yell." The track had an attitude, it had an unexpected texture thanks to Truell's playing improvised percussion, but her scream is what took it to the next level, transforming it into a signature Imperial Teen song. One of Imperial Teen's less magical concerns on All Over You is the effect capitalism has on the creation of art. This expresses itself in the headspinning rush of music industry success and disappointment that plays out in "Hands All Up, " and also in Imperial Teen's sound. All Over You features the band's most expansive, textured palette to date, and much of it's steeped in - bubblegum music and boy/girl harmonies, electro beats and grungy distortion, power pop mall anthems and kiss-off lyricism - has been dismissed, at one point or another, as a fad. Time, of course, has proven otherwise, and All Over You makes a case for Imperial Teen as four of that time's architects, inheriting, preserving, and pushing the boundaries of what pop music can be from one song to the next. "We want to make people dance and think and feel at the same time, " says Schwartz. In all of those ambitions, All Over You crushes, brought to life by four distinctly talented musicians who found each other in the clubs of San Francisco over three decades ago and have remained a family ever since. It is less a return from hiatus than a broadcast from the sonic utopia Imperial Teen has long ruled over, where the music is bratty and sexy and the parties don't stop until everyone's found euphoria. A rave-up for the mind, body, and soul, best enjoyed in a dark room packed with as many sweaty bodies as possible.UPC/ISBN: 673855089300
Release Date: 10/09/2026
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